Hey Guys,
I was having a few beers with my sister-in-law's boyfriend the other day (I was drinking my homebrew hefe weizen, he was drinking Michelob Ultra). And he began asking lots of questions about homebrewing. So, I know that he is into low taste beer and I thought that a nice mild English Bitter might be the one to reel him into homebrewing. (I'll get him on good dark beer soon enough, I can tell - just a matter of conditioning).

I like Boddington's as a nice session beer and think that the light color might also be a little more appealing to him.

Anybody got a good extract Boddington's or English Bitter recipe that they'd be willing to share??

If you want to take that more toward boddington's, my bet would be to trade the crystal/caramel malt for pale, and possibly split the amber extract into amber and light. I wouldn't call Boddy's the most hoppy beer on the planet so a guy might watch the hops too...

I'm working on a clone for the boddy's pub ale (not bitter). The recipe is simmilar, just use ligther crystal and no black malt.

Started with a couple of recipes from the net. But I am not totally happy with the outcome yet.

I have scheduled a new batch for this weekend or the next.

One comment is: either carapils or maltodextrine are necesary to increase mouthfeel without much increase in flavor.

The pub ale recipes also call for for the invert sugar, I've tried lyle's golden syrup (just divide by .8 because contains 20% water), but I am dropping it next time (the beer is too watery already and I'll replace with equivalent XLDME). Also I was told that the original yeast in boddy's beers is the whitbread (sp???) strain. I guess that safale s-04 contains this strain, I have yet to try it because I've just got that piece of info.